Monday, 28 January 2008

Power Cut

About 6:30pm we had an unexpected power cut. Not only was it confusing as the power went out -- it took me a couple of minutes to work out what was going on as i still had power on the laptop (from the battery of course) and was typing up and email. Boys upstairs, parents downstairs - but all hell breaks lose as it's very dark in house without power and the boys freaked big time! They couldn't see a thing o happy times suddenly went bad! Good news is that the amount of shrieking and shouting going on we could locate them quickly. Took us a while to calm them down and explain to a 6yr old and a 2yr old whats happening. Managed to get emergency phone installed, locate so torches, candles (and a single match!) and get some sort of normality resumed. I rang power company and whatever happened seems to take out about 5 major market towns/villages in the local area! It took just over 2 hrs to restore power (if we have a cut it's normally on within 15 mins!) Be interesting to see what the power company has to say about the outage. Equipment failure, vandalism or too much load?

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